Word: nine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Eight Freshmen are training for the class crew, and thirteen or fourteen are trying for the class nine...
...first nine of the Hasty Pudding Club from '78 are: Messrs. J. Parker, W. S. Otis, W. A. Bancroft, J. Homans, F. W. Thayer, A. P. Loring, E. Blaine, N. P. Bond, F. O. de Billier...
...following men are trying for positions on the University Nine: Ernst and Tyng, '76; Annan, Dow, Latham, Leeds, and Sawyer, '77; Holmes and Thayer, '78; Thorp and Wright...
...There is no prospect of a New Haven professional nine for Yale to practise with this year...
...have us to believe. But, at the same time, their achievements are not of a creditable sort. Bonfires, explosions, amateur burglary of private as well as of public property, and all that sort of thing, are not feats which I should call characteristic of gentlemen. To be sure, in nine cases out of ten this behavior is due to mere thoughtlessness, and I do not doubt that many a good fellow - in every sense of the word - has taken part in it. But I am sure that by such behavior a man gains neither in self-respect nor in caste...